benzocaine
/ˈbɛn.zəˌkeɪn/noun
benzocaine is a noun meaning “A local anesthetic commonly used as a topical pain reliever” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-N-Z-O-C-A-I-N-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of benzocaine is benzocaines.
What does benzocaine mean?
noun
- 1
A local anesthetic commonly used as a topical pain reliever.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce benzocaine?
- US /ˈbɛn.zəˌkeɪn/
Benzocaine has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-benzocaine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of benzocaine
- benzocaines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is benzocaine?
Benzocaine appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).